Recently, I’ve seen a couple of email lists get active again, talking about the issues of building Pagan community and unity. I’ve got mixed feelings about many of these – and I want to take a little bit of time to explain why.
What got me started:
There are two things that got me started thinking [...]

One of the forums I read got a post this week that got me thinking about how one best advertises events in the Pagan community (or to be more specific, how one does so efficiently, but politely.) What I came up with are a series of questions. I don’t think they’re the only questions possible, [...]

One of the things I’ve been thinking about (due to some professional work talking about online harassment and disagreements) is the role of gossip and social commentary in the Pagan community.
I believe that there is healthy gossip and unhealthy gossip, but I want to talk about some examples.

This seems to be my month for it – last Wednesday, I was at a wonderful lecture by Dr. Eboo Patel, one of the founders of the Interfaith Youth Core, a group that seeks to “1) build widespread public support for interfaith youth work; 2) equip youth-focused institutions to positively engage their religious diversity; and [...]

A post on one of the Pagan forums I spend time on caught my attention this week. This person was very unhappy with a post in a thread, and was upset that he couldn’t go and respond there. In other words, he didn’t really get the community culture.
All communities have an internal culture – at [...]